Pious Poet Pillows

"Repent" "Give alms" "Resist temptation" "Pray for me" "Fasting" "Acts of service" "Sacrifice" "Abstain" "You are ashes" "You are dust" "No meat"

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Meet The Author"

Open mike night presents Sadie Cohen. Summer's almost over

Edgar Allen Poe

"Do me next."

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"Now I really hate poetry."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

When the world is Mud-luscious - e.e. cummings

Red Letter Days - A declaration of love in public

John Bunyan

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Blue Stockings - Female poet who has not sold any of her books

Dating an English Major

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

'You have to Marvell eh - 'annihalating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade.''

"Oh, this old thing?"

Letters escape from a caged book.

"Mum! - T.S. Eliot - 'Humankind cannot bear much reality'."

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

"She'll have a semi-wizened, double ristretto with a dot of quail's milk - and please recite a poem while you make it."

"The rolling wheels...the ringing bells...signal the deliciousness of summer."

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

Cafe Momus from La Boheme